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  • Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control < Francis is
    "The (for now) final end product seems incredibly obvious. And popular.

    Yet it took decades of iterative innovation, from some of the cleverest minds in the field, to make something so apparently simple yet powerful.

    And every step was astonishing." This is great stuff from Francis.

    (tags: scm vcs versioncontrol history programming francisirving writing )
  • [Noisebridge-discuss] update on the shrine!
    "So, as some of you may know, the old shrine got re-activated as a working shrine a few days ago, and the Church classroom cleared away for meditation and contemplation, led by Fa Zang (Rinpoche), the guy in the buddhist monk robe who has been doing a lot of sewing in the craft area recently." I love mailing lists. And this is a remarkable post.
    (tags: mailinglists noisebridge sf hackers geeks buddhists funny )
  • Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers! – Yan Pritzker
    "Using vim is like talking to your editor in ‘verb modifier object’ sentences, turned into acronyms." Which is a good way of thinking of it.
    (tags: vim editor text )
  • Calepin
    "Calepin reads Markdown-formatted, plain-text files stored in your Dropbox and converts them into blog posts for you." Which is pretty clever.
    (tags: blogging markdown blog tools toolchain )

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